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Five Al Jazeera journalists, including well-known correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a journalists’ tent in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the strike, accusing al-Sharif of being a Hamas operative who “posed as a journalist” and led a terrorist cell responsible for rocket attacks.Al Jazeera…

The entertainment industry has lost yet another gem, as Dominos co-founder and keyboardist-singer Bobby Whitlock has passed away. He breathed his last at the age of 77, on August 10, 2025, Sunday, around 1 am, as confirmed by his manager to Variety. Reportedly, he battled a brief illness and was at home in Texas surrounded…

Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav NEW DELHI: Hardik Pandya will undergo a routine fitness assessment at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru on August 11 and 12, ahead of India’s Asia Cup 2025 squad selection, TimesofIndia.com has learnt.The star all-rounder has been training in Mumbai since mid-July. The 31-year-old had been a pivotal cog…

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice Surya Kant, who is next in line to succeed him, have disapproved of the tendency of judges of superior courts to comment on the knowledge and ability of lower court judges, and said the Supreme Court and high courts are only to correct, modify…

NEW DELHI: Can organs, say a kidney or the liver, retrieved from a deceased donor with a history of diabetes or hypertension be used for transplantation?In a first of its kind factual assessment and report, the Indian Society for Organ Transplantation (ISOT) has said the benefits far outweigh the risks involved and, therefore, such donations…

CHENNAI: Pakistan’s “narrative management” during Operation Sindoor convinced its citizens they had triumphed, but “victory is in the mind”, Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said recently, describing how India planned and executed the cross-border strike like a high-stakes chess match.“If you ask a Pakistani whether you lost or won, he’d say my chief has become…

BENGALURU: India forced Pakistan “to its knees within hours” during Operation Sindoor in early May, PM Narendra Modi said Sunday, while calling the military success a show of “the new face” of a nation powered by technology and home-grown defence manufacturing.His remarks reinforced the nation’s position that no external party, including the US, played a…

NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Sunday informed Supreme Court that there was no provision in the Representation of the People Act or relevant rules mandating sharing details of preparation, publication or names of people deleted from the draft electoral roll with anyone, including petitioners before SC, except political parties.“The statutory framework does not require EC…

NEW DELHI: Air India’s upgrade of its legacy widebody fleet has been delayed again. The airline now hopes to complete the task by October 2028, about a year longer than the five-year plan announced earlier. Supply chain constraints since Covid have delayed Tata’s $400 million fleet retrofit programme for “delivering a world class flying experience…

KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata have opened a suo motu probe into allegations that the RG Kar medical college rape-murder victim’s mother was wounded during Saturday’s march to Bengal secretariat Nabanna, setting off a political slugfest between TMC and BJP over who was to blame.The parents have not filed a formal complaint, but BJP said the…